# Most popular professions for the fictional treatment?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-professions-for-the-fictional-treatment/509555 "2009-09-10T14:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-professions-for-the-fictional-treatment/509555/41 "2009-09-11T15:31:55Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> …I’m sure they’re out there, but you don’t see much fiction centered around delivery people (Fed Ex guys, people who deliver phone books, etc). Even though Hiro Protagonist… wasn’t he in pizza delivery?

Yes, he was. Also, although the series wasn’t centered around him, a bicycle-delivery courier was a major character on the TV series _Civil Wars_.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-professions-for-the-fictional-treatment/509555/42 "2009-09-11T15:35:03Z")

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Also, in the movie Quicksilver, Kevin Bacon played a bike messenger.

And another profession that you wouldn’t expect to see in the movies is beekeeper. But there were at least two movies featuring them; Ulee’s Gold and The Secret Life of Bees.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-professions-for-the-fictional-treatment/509555/43 "2009-09-11T15:48:05Z")

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There’s probably at least one movie showing every single profession in the world. Even port-a-potty workers have the Australian movie _Kenny_.

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